Tham khảo tài liệu 'new developments in biomedical engineering 2011 part 16', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 592 New Developments in Biomedical Engineering recent years has attracted attention of medical and ICT researchers. ICT systems are already in use in medical areas but their applications are limited. The main drawback of current systems is the location specific nature of the system due to the use of fixed wired systems. There are many existing medical monitoring systems using specialised equipments which could send data using either standard telephone lines or specially designed network for medical applications. However these systems are not location independent and in most cases they are clumsy in nature due to use of wired sensors. Use of a WBAN can introduce location independent monitoring systems. WBAN applications can also be extended to sports training areas where athletes or players can be monitored to find their deficiencies or to improve their skills. This chapter presents the WBAN hardware and network design techniques. Section presents medical applications scenarios by introducing the roles of different wireless networking standards. Section presents hardware design techniques of WBAN nodes and networks. This section also discusses basic architecture of a WBAN node. Design of other nodes such as GATEWAY and CCU Central Control Unit is also presented in this section. Some basic performance result is also discussed in this section. Section 4 discusses WBAN network design technique. This section discusses several fundamental design techniques and introduces different MAC Medium Access Control protocols suitable for WBAN applications. Section 4 also discusses the link budget design issues. Section 5 presents a multi-patient monitoring system based on the WBAN architecture. This section also discusses various design features of a multi-patient monitoring system. Section 6 presents simulation results of the multi-patient WBAN system. Results presented in this section explain various operational features of the WBAN. Section 7 presents some future WBAN
